| A Cool Million and the Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels Contributor(s): West, Nathanael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374530270 ISBN-13: 9780374530273 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2006 Annotation: Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O' Connor. "A Cool Million," written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. "The Dream Life of Balso Snell "(1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006922061 |
| Series: FSG Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.40 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse. |
Contributor Bio(s): West, Nathanael: - Nathanael West (1903-40) was also the author of The Day of the Locust. |